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The meaning of Verra.
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So in the Q&A on Sunday Steven told us the common tongue name for the world of Ashes which is Verra. But Jeff also said that there were already hints out there about what it actually means, so I thought I would try to figure it out.
So after looking through basically all that we have heard so far, I have narrowed what I think the meaning of the name could be down to a couple things. The word Verra has some similarity to the the Latin word for truth and using Latin is a popular naming convention, my name being a pretty good example of it because its a Latin word with one letter changed for my sense of aesthetics. Another thing to note is that Verra has been used as a name in russian which means faith. It might seem like that is not something to account for but if you look at the little lore we do have the gods already played a big part in it. The gods performed a divine intervention to get our ancestors off of the world to escape the corruption, so the gods are probably the most important figures if not the only figures in the lore that we can really refer to. Verra also is linked to other things such as glass and belief which I couldn't really working well.
After considering the little we have to look through, my guess for the meaning of Verra would be something along the lines of True Faith, or Home of the Faithful. I would be interested to hear the community's thoughts on this. I think if I am right or in the ballpark this could start to give us a picture of how important the Gods and religions are in the world of Ashes.
Edit: Steven has confirmed that it come from the Russian: Faith and Italian: It will come.
So after looking through basically all that we have heard so far, I have narrowed what I think the meaning of the name could be down to a couple things. The word Verra has some similarity to the the Latin word for truth and using Latin is a popular naming convention, my name being a pretty good example of it because its a Latin word with one letter changed for my sense of aesthetics. Another thing to note is that Verra has been used as a name in russian which means faith. It might seem like that is not something to account for but if you look at the little lore we do have the gods already played a big part in it. The gods performed a divine intervention to get our ancestors off of the world to escape the corruption, so the gods are probably the most important figures if not the only figures in the lore that we can really refer to. Verra also is linked to other things such as glass and belief which I couldn't really working well.
After considering the little we have to look through, my guess for the meaning of Verra would be something along the lines of True Faith, or Home of the Faithful. I would be interested to hear the community's thoughts on this. I think if I am right or in the ballpark this could start to give us a picture of how important the Gods and religions are in the world of Ashes.
Edit: Steven has confirmed that it come from the Russian: Faith and Italian: It will come.
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So....
Prophecy.
Steven likes to speak French.
Or faith/truth too.
So having a faith about the future is implied in my mind.
You wouldnt have faith in the future unless you new what that future was and 'could see it'
ie prophecy.
If it has any relationship at all to earth linguistics
IMHO anyway.
SoonTM
Arrev
Arrive? Rev from Revive? Ar from Arrow?
I think deep.
Resurgam